Ubisoft Is Getting Ready To Talk About Far Cry 4

With the breakout success of Far Cry 3 and its spin-off Blood Dragon, it should be no surprise that Far Cry 4 is in the works. According to an Ubisoft executive, we'll be hearing about the game sooner rather than later.

In an interview with Gamespot, Ubisoft senior vice president of marketing and sales Tony Key says, "We're totally psyched from [Far Cry 3]. It's a great brand, and now it's got the recognition it deserves, so we're clearly going to make another one: more on that soon."

Key went on to talk about the popularity of open world games, something that, with Assassin's Creed and Far Cry in its lineup, Ubisoft certainly knows something about.

Far Cry 3 was one of the best reviewed games of 2012, and recently Ubisoft has boasted about Blood Dragon's strong sales.

Our Take:Ubisoft sticks with what works. If a series proves itself in quality and (especially) sales, you're likely going to see yearly product released. I know gamers sometime complain about too many sequels, but I don't necessarily think that its sequels they have a problem with - it's uninspired sequels. As long as Ubisoft keeps pushing the series forward (as it did with Far Cry 3) or into interesting new directions (as it did with Blood Dragon), I'm glad they are making more of a good thing. However, there's always the risk of burning out a franchise, as I believe we are starting to see with Assassin's Creed's annual releases.

I still need to finish up FarCry 3, I remember making it to the second island and thats the last time I played it. Great game though and one of my personal favorite shooters in a while. More games for a franchise is good as long as they get better each time. And I love the releases of the Assassins Creed franchise, they always make the next better then before and I loved and own every single game. I am really stoked for Black Flag.

I find it entertaining that a very high percentage of people that complain about annual releases still go buy them as soon as they come out. I agree a game shouldn't be rushed, however if we go back and look at the AC series and the coverage on them we see that each game was in the works for about three years or so.

I loved Far Cry 3, liked Far Cry 2, never played Far Cry 1. I stopped playing AC1, loved AC2, stopped playing AC Brotherhood, and didn't even bother with AC Revelations or AC3. Please keep some time in between the Far Cry games, and make them because you have an interesting concept, not because you made money on an interesting concept and want to cash in again on its name.

Although I loved Blood Dragon, I hope Far Cry 4 plays more closely to the traditional Far Cry experience. I'd like to see as much of jump between FC3 and FC4 as we saw between FC2 and the third game. FC3 was a refinement of the mechanics we saw in FC2...I say bring them back and add a slew of new gameplay options.

But I wouldn't mind seeing a change in scenery, namely, moving from the classic tropical/jungle setting to a more diverse environments. Sure, FC3 added more mountainous locations to shake it up a bit, but some snowy, urban, etc., terrains could prove interesting.

I was very hopeful for FarCry 3 and it did not disappoint. I have yet to try Blood Dragon but it is on my backlog list. FC4 seems like a no brainer but I do not think it is necessary to give us something annually. Every two years would really be fine so long as their was an effort to support each iteration with quality and content heavy DLC.

The next FarCry should make an effort to escape the island/jungle and give us different but equally exotic and challenging locales. Gameplay mechanics were pretty solid so no worries there. Hopefully they can blur the lines a bit between Story, Co-op and PvP elements similar to what they seem to be attempting with the upcoming new IP, The Division. Linear Co-op is getting pretty tired and the FC3 multiplayer was not much fun. Significant enhancements in these areas or just drop them altogether please.

I would play an annually released game any day over a freemium /title. I mean take for a example the MechWarrior/MechAssault games. I love MechWarrior and MechAssault(Day One Studios). But I recently tried to play MechWarrior Online. This free to play is BS. In order to take full advantage of the game you have to spend at least $40. And even after paying that type of money how is this gameplay going to stand up to something like Titanfall which is going to revolutionize the genre. The same thing goes for March of War. Looks like a really cool turn base stategy game but there is no way in Hell you can play it without spending $30 on it. I am sorry to say this but I hope all free to play games fail its just a stupid concept.

If they make far cry a regular title i just hope they dont try to milk it until no one buys it anymore. and as much as i loved fc3 i hope in fc4 they take some tips from fc2 specifically the way the friends worked they actually affected the game the missions they didnt just give them out should expand on that